Yes, a job as the sole IT guy at a small consulting form had me keeping the computers of about 50 people (half onsite, half in home offices) running, starting i

Yes, a job as the sole IT guy at a small consulting form had me keeping the computers of about 50 people (half onsite, half in home offices) running, starting in 1997 with a custom front end to Exchange, and Windows NT server... through to 2012 with VMware on the servers, Windows and Exchange and Windows 7 pro everywhere. When I started, there was 40 hours worth of work every week. By the end, I would show up and wait for things to break. We had an in-house database, written in Access 97, then 2000... called Smiley. I tried 3 different times to re-write it in a manner to make everything flow better, and save a lot of people a lot of grief. Each time, there was an absolute terror that something would go wrong, and somehow it would crash the business. I had mechanisms figured out by the 3rd version to keep everything in sync across the old and the new versions... to no avail. It completely broke my spirit. I've been afraid to start any major projects, even personal ones, ever since. I'm basically waiting to die of old age at this point.